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Salutary

//ˈsæljətɛɹi// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial.

    "salutary advice"

  2. 2
    Promoting good health and physical well-being; wholesome; curative.

    "In the living state, the body is observed to […] reject what is noxious; to select what is salutary; […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French salutaire and its source, Latin salutaris (“healthful”), from salus (“health”).

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